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According to Gawande, who is currently a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health, the solution is “simple”—a checklist...
...World Health Organization assigned Gawande what he called a “daunting” task: to reduce deaths from surgery around the globe. He began his project by distributing surgical safety checklists to eight hospitals—from impoverished clinics in New Delhi and Tanzania to leading hospitals in Seattle and London...
...consulting opportunity in Hong Kong also matched Gao’s professional interests. After becoming involved in global health and going abroad her sophomore summer, she looked to explore another field, “I think working at a non-profit as a college student made me realize my limitations in terms of how the wider world works, so I thought business was good for learning more,” says...
...July 2009, experts at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon—the cancer branch of the World Health Organization—published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology their research stating that tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation are causes of cancer. Tanning beds are now considered to be as deadly as arsenic and mustard...
...statistics, it seems incredibly unwise to subject oneself to concentrated UV rays on purpose. We don’t go around smearing ourselves with arsenic, do we? But if people won’t stop frequenting tanning salons and turning into lobsters, even when they are aware of the health risks, the best thing is for the government to tighten tanning bed restrictions...